English and Drama | Lesson Ideas

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English and Drama

The Friary school outline the role English can play in promoting numeracy:
English lessons can help to develop and support pupils’ numeracy skills, for example, by use of mathematical vocabulary and technical terms, by asking children to read and interpret problems to identify the mathematical content, and by encouraging them to explain, argue and present their conclusions to others.

Numeracy objectives - how they might apply to English:

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Lesson Ideas

• Comparison of 2 data sets on word and sentence length.
• Reading and writing numbers, identifying centuries
• Coding, secret codes Grouping/categorising ideas/words
• Venn diagrams of character traits (similarities and differences)
• For pupils to understand how a scene needs to have climax and tension the teacher draws a graph on the board with time at the bottom and energy at the side. Then asks the pupils to draw how they think a scene with climax will look like on the graph.
• Ordering/Sequencing and classification
• Grouping/Patterns
• Space/Time/Distance
• Spatial Awareness including angles, planes & axes, Rotation & momentumAcceleration & Deceleration
• Classification

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English and Drama | Lesson Ideas

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This wiki contains ideas to help you develop numeracy in your lessons and across the school. Some of the ideas presented are taken from some excellent numeracy across the curriculum documents produced by Deptford Green School, the Friary School, Leicestershire Numeracy team, All Saints CCFL School, and the Kent Advisory Service (curriculum support in mathematics) amongst others. Please take the time to visit the Resources page to take a look at these documents and the associated weblinks in the Useful Links page (2 really useful ones are the Maths Zone and Suffolk Maths and a good blog post from @numberloving here). Other ideas are developed by teachers/educators who have contributed directly or indirectly to this wiki.

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